The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1915, Page 15

¢ Ready to Kick Over the Plans! =. By Robert Minor The Evening World Daily Magazine. Tuesday. March 23° 1915 ° } An Allan Quatermain Story ty Of South African Adventure | Get wows one bad a rah (oe Mere, t toes mat ts arenees sae ope bad 2 oes Ee on i think thet when | aiied for SME ie ad ing avenged upon poe for ; passion and folly | ‘ot that evil omih.e ;: oe Vlame on (he back erty, glancing 2B, spelling | Alan whe ae alt hie troubles het er 4 uoed @ reamomatde frame of ming ae | have reapum lo know |in him-—tor s while Tet \y and Without grat.) \ are past finding out, are they nor? Mut | have only done what f Now my anger brose oul and ‘ising do True, Me 1 mia f mother, is very atron Te you teen Mynheer Marais, thet notetthatanding the love between deep. CHAPTER 111. Parti enough choose Tnalish us oome The Parting. wir _1 have sworn @ great oath before NG before the dawn | stood my that he shail ever marry my in the peach orchard and ‘#ushter with my conseat, waited. At length Marte ‘Friend, | write to eek you some- thing because I trust you mere than eames stealing between th these agents. Half (he price, a very tree trunke like « gray ghost, for she brid oN go 1 Lg ap od 3 Sore, wrapped in some light colored *tlll unpaid to me by Jacobus van der garment, he aw me and stood atill, Met June remains Henne ae mate then opened her arms and clasped ine due this day year, te her breast, uttering no word A pra ane to as 04 b aive i eceipt for the wane so there ti While later she spoke almost in & ON me from your British Govern- japer, waying t £284 on account of slaves Iib- “Allan, | must not stay long, for I worth quite £1,- think that if my father found us te Paper gives you ther he would shoot you in his mad. *Uthority to reoelv mess.” “When you have received these moneys, If ever, T pray ou take some Now, as always, it was of Me 8D6 gage opportunity of aending them to been ae clear thet but ome thing re- here mained (0 be done, te tren oe Seapets p.-¥ Mane of bow ey back \o what ie now wean that she is to be given te Wraggert who deserted her im hei your master here I have cattle end une and sorvanta Well, | will take & jarie, and if eny should try me I know how to pro end her” “Hut, much as ahe may love you. Mario would not go away with pou \s that dea and leave her father to starve him @o il that T “Then you can come with ue as by new my father-indaw, Mynt Mareia "Wh $6 you joave him if he was arais At any rn town bah hed m4 ‘ ter told me to, bene, slp, for we . 4 1 inclose you and leave her here to ini our lest ad thought, not of herself. me, wherever I may be, which doubt- anowed lat thet " igght ~24 fer the wuc “And you, my sweet?” I asked, dems you will hear in due courte At to argue mange beasts and the Vultures, A lem ate ‘Garr f ‘HENRE MARAIS." | alos r "Ohi" whe answered, “thet MAttOrh — wwe» guid my father with @ algh, the other man, his servant, a lem: Bothing. Except for the ein of it 1 «| suppose I must wocept thie t able, Allan,” he sald. tad arte when yman to marry you’ Hurely, if you love her so mueb, you Would not pour mud upon her name, even in thin wildernean “She might not think it mu pied. “Men and womer ‘wish would ghoot mo, for then I @hould buve done with al! this pain. I told you, Allan, when the Kaftire QUST A eg RY ‘Were on us yonder, that it might be joved Hoers I am sure | do not know. ter to di 4 see, my heart I will go and write to him.” pti ne i Marie had left for me this soribbled th why he should choose an with whom he has CHAPTER VII. line: married without the heip Is there no hope?" I gasped. “Will wisn brave and faithful, and re- Bebe Recciee gant limece The Rescue. Re really separate us and take you = member, ant ahall. love of eelidren hel OW, when the Motteatet'r @way into the wilderness” u my heart, adieu, adieu story was finished a dis “Certainly, nothing can turn bim. This message was unsigned; but A as a - at, Allan, thore is this hope. In two what need ras there of signature? “It may be, Allan, though 1 held cuasion arose, Marais eatc | years, ive, a) o ' nd so, for more than a year, we * ‘ that some one must te @hd can marry whom I will; and this heard no more of Marie nor of her no marriage good unlese the hely hed T ewear, that I will marry none but father. I whiled away the time by words are aad. Hut why do you met Jet mo come to th Becaune 1 the Mynheor Marais “Not ao, Allan, © whteher nephew atill lived, to which the other Beer, replied “Ja” in an indifferent vetee. Then the Vrouw Prinsioo took up her had nworn thi parable. 4 oon Wane ant a en ee She remarked, an she had done be- i tha’ tt An fore, that in her judgment Herne ; fontein. These were himself, finger, aesing that tien ahe isa tree Pereira wan “a eneak and a skuak, iter, four Prinsloos—a fam- n who can dispose of herself, who had tried to desert them in thei: orrow,”" border wars. bless you for those words,” Ieaid. At length that war was patched up “Why? she asked simply. “What with an inconclusive peace and my rs could I #peak? Would you hi corps was do outrage to my own heart and home, no lon, thr life talthle: and with exper med a rather unique knowledge of Kaffirs, Boers tried to take certain beaste of false trails I managed to loca ‘And I, L swear also,” I broke in. — their languages, history, and modes theirs without payment. So we “Nay, swear nothing. While I live of thought and acti Also I had quite helples ten no, not even if you were to dle serving in one of the eternal Kaftir i who was lying face upward on the © region I sought. ground, She seemed to hear my a! and can only wait for for her eyen opened and she etrui " tg | “now that you will love me, and associated a good deal with British death. Nine days of fearful struggle had gied to a sitting posture. By ce coueenceerr. Cran eaeT Ae hare att Cone ey cath. fOr trouble, and by the Judgment of « } PI should be takon, it is my wish officers, and from them acquired much “Allan, my father says that he "one by. Woe campod ono nig “In it really you, Allan, or do 1 and three Meyers, being the husband fi, ork) to) iome fe my help. Now Just God had got Into trouble him | that you should marry some other that I had found no opportunity of asked your father to collect soma below the crest of a long slope strewn dri 7 she murmured. of the poor woman I had seen COM- are you satiatied ?” welt. i good Woman, since it is not well or studying before, especially, I Bape, moneys that were owing to him, If with many great rocks, many of which — “It in I, it jn I!" 1 annwered, Metin mitted to the grave and two of her — “I don't know,” I answered doubt- The upahot of the matte én ] ht that man should live alone, the ideas and standards of Engli#h jt wore possible for you or other w® wero obliged to roll out of the path her to her feet, for whe seemed *) 41, cnnuren, Tho rest, Hernan Per- fully, for somehow all Marais’s cas- . } th us maids it is different, Listen, gentlemen, friends to come to Delagoa in a ship yy main force in order to make a way Welah no more than a child. Her hi 4 of ft q wletry, which T thought contemptible, I pet off in nearch of Pereira—with ni Allan, for the cocks aré beginning to One day soon after my return to with that money, I think that it head fell upon my shoulder, and @he eira excepted, had died of fover and 114 noe convince me that he wae very good grace, {| admit. The Het- , Ww, and soon there will be light. the mission station a mous (that is, a ight serve to buy some oxen, enough *F the wagons. too began to weep, actual starvation, for when the fever cere. “I don't know tentot guided me; and I took aleng. ¥ must bide hore with your father. low kind of white man, who travels for a few wagons. Then perhaps we Presently the sun rose and 1 saw Still holding her, I turned to th® ieasoned with the change of the sea. “Much may chance in bearers, three of my Kafre, . Poasible I will write to you from about trading with unsophisticated might trek back and full in with a that beneath us waa @ great stretch men and sald: here fe Hone the starvation set Ia “Of course, All fF ineta: Ane, | j e to time, telling you where we Hoera and Kaffire, and cheating them party of Boers who, we bellove, have of plain covered with mist, and to _ "Why do you etarve when there le We tha anek tow @ ve dia not Marie might chi her mind nd #0, in course of time, I came a are and how we fare, But if 1 do not if he can), ed at the etation with crossed the Quathlamba Mountains the north, on our right, several r game all about and I ely od ir the first fe jaye we Rot marry some ene else, upon the man I seught, | ite, Know that it is because I can- his cartful of goods. T was about to into Natal. Or perhaps we might met billows of mist that mai fwo “fat elande strolling among te taik much except of the immediate "Gr {'mignt mot be there to marry, amination of him mot, or because I can find no mes- send him away, having no liking for to the and find a ahip to take course of the Crocodile Rivor. trees not more than u hundr necessities of the hour, which occu-e mynheer. Acctdenta sometimes hi Pereira was not dead, but only or ; wer, or because the letters have such gentry, when he asked me if I us anywhere from this horrible place. Looking closely at a group of dis- “fty yards away. 5 ‘ carried, for wo gu into wild coun- ire named Allan would tant tre E ran we kill game with stones?" Pied all our thoughts. Afterward, pen to men who are not wasted, fhe {he extremo brink of death! He war } an awful spectacie, mere bone wit! my ny Pl If you could come, the nativ #, 1 aaw between them what among savages. ‘Cached: ee reece. ae, Sree Le guide you to where we are. at first L took for some white rocks, axked one of then yhither do you go?” T as had a or me, produc ry t, Ihave one more ] believe up toward the great har- a packet wrapped up in sall-cloth, I enine' vs cay, though I must any. it bor called Delagoa May, where the asked him whence he had it, and he shortly, for the paper is nearly fin- Portuguose rule. cousin Hert answered from a man whom he had {yned.”'r do not know, supposing that coompanies wi und she shiv- met at Port Elizabeth, an east coast ive and well, whether you eee enin my arcaes'ie halt trader, who, hearing that he was Zou are allve an “we whove pow: When Marais and hin daughter were urther examination, as the mist der was all burnt a month ago’ strong enough to bear It, we hed do not yellow akin stretched over | G eared, suggested to ‘my mind, how- Those buck,” he added, with a Wild gome conversation. He began by ask- moan that I=" Sea tae er, that they might be wagon tilts, laugh, “come to mock us every covered with fith and clotted bleo: | ing how I came to find th ‘No, mynheer,” € inte: ed; “but called Hans and bade him inspan morning; but they will not walk Into Taplied, through. Marie's. letter, there are other, people lathe world OM some hurt, 1 had brandy with J harness) ax quickly as possible, ex- our pitfalls, They Know them too which, it appeared, he knew nothing besides yourself—-Hernan Pereira, for ™¢. of which I poured @ little dewn nd we have no atrongth to die of, for he had forbidden her to write example, if he I Hull, Tam’ not hia throat, whereon his heart begar to me, the only one concerned in this mat- t yr com: Now when I loft my wagons I bud “It weemn fortunate that you were to Reet femmiy: SOee we maee: tine jelly in wild countries, or, for tter of that, to those ehte! Allan, {2 my Arma cole Balt radar, wo, tear em auatriet, ine, stil. care for moe, who lett you so lone EATAAR camp. ran on unead with che ‘fortuguesc. je telle © Bocra com! > » ine 4 Marads's camp. Tran on ahead with others. ago—it seems yearn and years—but ty" P has relations there who have writ- trusted him with the letter. Theman my heart is where it was, and where ‘2 -affir servant tor. There in Marie yonder. Shall fen him many fine promises, saying told him that It waa very tmportant, [promised it should remain, in your pj Orie At Inet were rough houser brought with me that aame rifle disohoyed, mynhoer,” I said, to which Tvall her?” woup, and poured that down his Ghey will give Us good country to and thut I should reward the bearer Keeping, Of course, Hernan has Duilt of the branches of trees, daubed with which I had shos the geese 1D ho anawered nothing Ilo nodded, preferring probably throat with more brandy, and theenc 11 In where we cannot be followed well if it were delivered safely. pressed me to marry him, and my Of them tort the match against Pereira, choosing — ‘Then 1 told the tale of the arrival that 1 ahould speak to her in his of it was he came to life again. the English, whom he and my T opened the letter, It was iM father has wished it, But I have al- : it because it was so light to carry. of that letter at the mission station fasher hate so much.” Mario's handwriting, Tread: ways, said no, and now, in our Aull for @ moment [held up my hand for ailenge, set in the Cape Mi have heard that ts all fever veld “Mp Dear Allan: T do not know wretchednes, there 18 no more talk of (r°usnt ‘hat { heard @ faint aound ax @fid that tho country between is full whether the other letters T have marriage at prosent, which ts the one giong the end of the outermost hot ae . oft of fierce Kaffirs,” I sald with 4 groan. written to you have ever come to good thing that has happened to m@. ang rubbing the cold sweat f! use Taking what shelter I could, I got “It was a great deed,” sald Henri came at ones very different Maric “Perhaps. I do not know and 1 do your hands, or indeed if this one will. And, Allan, before so very long © oyos, peeped round the Or ant within a hundred yards of them Marais, taking the pipe from his wirl of a while be- ot care. At least that is tho notion ft], T send it on chance. We are shall be of age, if I live. Still 1 dare Qhcurred to me. that savages maint Wen suddenly they took alarm, mouth, for 1 had brought tobaccs igh she was atill thin through my fingers, for at this 4 ih my father's head, though, of settled near the Crocodile River. My gay you no longer think of marriage being frightened, in fact, by my tw non my stores. “ut tell me, Al be 1 is y Course’ circumstances may change it, cette? Hoar the oreo vee home with, me, who, perhaps, are ulready °°, posieasion, Then I saw what yutu » presonce rather than alone. For t ; vlony by the hand of @ = So J called Marie, who was watch- ae soe My 1 se S aneor Ga Marie gently on the ground, and wandering smous, and of my desperate ing our talk somewhat angioualy, , and really eve that if at began to steal toward the el t to bring relief to the sufferern, ja she went about her tasks, Khe “uy time during those days I had re- J and r youth nea the Kaffirs were no good at all. cauned the sound, A tattered, blacks ants, who were now ur- jan, why did you wo it for the sake wore returning to her fast under the But 7 pulled him round, and om th 2 will try to let you know, Allan, or if ‘Maraisfontein,’ after our old home. married to some one elae, especially gned. bearded man stood at the head TVIN®. of ‘one who “hax not treated you influence of good food and happl- third mori he came to his 1.Go not, perhaps you will be able 19 Mui beautiful place to look at, a aa now T And all of Us are.no better ofa’ iong and auliow holt mayinga Of they galloped, che big bull lond~ Kindly? ‘js n while he stared at me, ee bath iiss eRe nee ae ie flat country of rich veld, with big than wandering beggars. Yet I have prover, log, and vanished behind some trees. did it,” | answered, “for the sake What we both live yo . it, Allan?” ahe asked, him In the mouth ao will alt care for you, when f trees growing on It, and ‘about two thought it right to tell you these ~ 1) was Henri Marais, although at the r line, and that they would of one who has always trea me gently, # told her all, repeating our cave, where the light was who will always care . i ° great river that is things, which you may like to know. gme 1 0 appear again between two clumpa kin and [ nodded toward Marie, Qonveraation and the arguments though the overhanging e Sa) of age, you will Join ue and. aay Mey “the Crovolile, Hore, ‘finding Taream of you by might and think Of Changed Was her Avauries of fittte. of bush about two hundred and Afty why Wan enguged in washing up tN6 which had bean used on either side tected him from the ahar Peed" te ja what y ye 7 . you by day, for how muc! lo" yor ards away. jastily rained io cookin ots ut a distance ad te ‘d, nearly as gd Jo wha thor nen, And if T die, good water, my father and Hernan mounds to the right and left of him ¥ word for word, as nea Bi uccaan “la that right?’ ee" * ou ™ in all T cannot tell. told me, however, t o full sight of the rif hich wax "I suppose so, Allan; but you know ae m Wee Dee Pe, ooh Eka wart Ferelra Wee ed tocaettle although "tn lite or deat Henn AT Watchud too itr eee marked for two hundred yardn, lifted she Is aM@anced to another.” iit si ‘watch over A you remind me of 1 asked of Marais @ome one, young nan, I know. It ix on uppeared, dra ng between then it, and waited, praying to God as f “iT know that e in alfa) when 1 hi inished, that accursed English bo; 1 you till you Join me beneath ‘he marie of ihe ctiare Smee we Such was this awful lettor. 1 still Hedy of a women, which they” $3 fla“so that my kill might not fail and to no ot 1 anawered war Tee oie ime have a goed wam- feat me Bt the genet aheetion 7 of God. Look, it Krows light eert quarrel about ft, but In the end have it: it Hex before me, thowe rag- scarce strength to carry. me. adding, "And pray where in thin other? ory," he anuwered. made me quarrel with Oom (ungle) must go. Farowell, my love my Tater, or rather Hernan, had his ged sheets of paper covered with faint “At length my limbs obeyed my will. ‘The bull appeared, its head held If he lives 1 do not wo him here Bee eee ha now what have Retiet, the napes that Marie wax Geath we pe ‘Quai, ha meet wo Will, an the oxen were worn out and pencil-writing that is blotted here 1 wont forward to the men and said forward, its long horne lying fut replied Marain in a curious < you to may, Marie?” av fond of, Well, whoever you are, many had already died from the bites and there with tear marks, some of in @ hollow volce in Dutch; upon the back, The shot was very » hho truth is, Allan, that Her 4 Gene Allan? Why, this: My life you can't be he, thank God,” aball,” a of {sonous fly which is called the thom the tears of Marie who wrote, “Whom do you bury?" long, and the beast very large to nan Pereira left us about a fortnight belongs to you, who have saved this “You are mistaken, Heer Pereira,” ‘Once more we clung together and o: Ho we lotted out the land, of some of them the tears of me who “Johanna Meyer,” answered gome bring down with so small a bullet, 1 before you came. (me horw remained, o4)"Or ine from death, as my love I anewered. "I am ‘that same ac- faved, muttering broken words, and ‘itich there is enough for hundreds, ; one mechanically, for they did not seem aimed right forward—clear of it, in- Which Was his, and with two Hotten- [Gy 0) iinet oom OS Ste . cursed young English jackanaper UB peg oP aN ark began to build rude houses. ding this letter my to have taken the trouble to look at deed—high, ie tag line, with ite pales ene aoe. Fyn’ ty nis, de Tahould have thought it no Allan Quatermata By name, ‘who tea: ‘3 i" a ‘upon een out visiting me, backhor and pressed the trigger. oe . A aa. wl been rou at shooting, 1! you take yy Site tereet my ‘heart Kani atole, i eae ae Retia, elt jon Kaffira, entered — 1 Jooked up. ‘There, advancing from ‘The rifle exploded, the bullet clapped, came, to try to find help. since then “ as i f how. befol advice, you will thank God for tegen Ermas ont. from my Breast. "1 tvousn (hey have not dared to attack the house, and went into the sitting the doorway nt one of the houws, very and the buck prank forward faster Ee trate Me he Slopaee to ward marr man ‘when (HINK tine, namely, that Your t ife, but I do d t two belonging to Her- room to meet him, slowly, as though overpowered by than ever. ! acne: how di be ae me ta on ; ‘ axe serperay Fuee a THe eee eee ot the aicknesa, the "Why, Allan, what is the matter Weakness, and leading by the hand ® was this? Suddenly the great bull #@! food yn the way’) | Ment uth which waleha upom bin "Who saved it? he asked, bitterer anguish than in this hour of jast’ of them but vesterday. ‘The with die he asked, noting my tear- mere skeleton of a child, wae van rune pound. nd pean to. epllen three had rifles, and about u hundred mind, and he has shown 70N that sea youre te now, 5 6s The rie, For when oo, have all died of the tsetse Stained face. chewing some. lea 1 saw—I saw toward us. en as je thie bad Hines b eithia sis menthe-A ahort . thre seen eee what Joy ia there few S:" other ‘iinestes, ‘But the 1 gave him the totter, for T could Marke Marais! “She was wasted to than Afty yards away it fell ina heap, Charge lelwort Wen | onihwthat omth dies of It Allan Quatermain! an "the Joy of pure, first love, and worst is that although this countr@ Rot speak, and with diMeulty he de- nothing, but I could not mistake her rolled twice over like a Oe OO eter eur cana would here since, by law, he can no ton for certainly 1 would bitterness like the bitterness of looks so healthy, it IN poisoned with ciphered it ; va those creat aan *y ” thas ba bape lay atill, ‘Phot bullet was in its 9% el ere monin Cup BIT tw, [rol me So, Allan, as t uf ia not ih thet erase an e ’ ” Kas 1 “What dreadful ne ne nal’ so unnaturally Jarge ta the be ‘ nant, e uriove him, of periegs lead ‘him. to ttle, the “ ita loan? ing 22Veh Which comes up, f think, in the he had finished, “Those poor thin face Tho two Kaffirs appeared breathless months.” | remarked Yet he wens SO GG what is foolish, £ think | a Gracey othe d aa eae pe OP ua Str Ae) people! those poor, misguided people!: She too saw me and stared for one streaming with perspiration. away with ull of thom—to find palpy it would be well that we ehould wait resor- ; te wile in front rolled the fire- on fen, three ‘women and five chit What can be done for them?” moment. Then, loosing the child, she it meat from the sland's freak: Tha in 0, Alien, W oe bemeed PM for those six months, if, on hin oie wha Terie: SBd two days later @.@ re 5 ni “ y one thing that can bedone, cast up her hands, through which don’t stop to wkin it," 1 said in my mut he would no part, he promises that be ‘will, then 2 our Journe: pwept veld, black as life had be- dren, while more are sick Tknow one thing that can be done, cast up her hands, through Which Gon Me helping’ the wards. ont 1 Hart, te promiees that he will then 4 come for me. “As yet my father aut | and my OF Ot Shy rate Ge di tana aiawl k to the ground. with signs. he thougtt t hi fi tea that then f will Aarried ina 4 isin Pe try to reach them , and slowly k Bro! h aig a Ja, ja, £ promiae that then a: fr 7 CHAPTER IV. cousin Faraira Bava, wd fey greys 1? he asked, “How he has gone, too,” anid one of the — ‘They underatood, and a minute late: it eapectally ty mottling to "‘pravent. your: marries | Thus | vat at last we arrived : kept quite well: Rat althe ot Os 9 ei i an indifferent voice, "L were at work with would hi none of hit sae ide A MOSS | 43 ue Ged a chip, ‘whare, having chan or G all very atrong, how long this will 1s it possible for you. one man. to eet thought she would not last another Then 1 tooked about me, Near hy added with ins do sumething to prevent it, for Coming, most of the Boors were gath- Allan’s Call. 1. Fortunately to Delagoa Bay, buy cattle 1 res ' Sane 7 . continue T cannot. tel ortunately % 0 y A ne day." lay a store of dead branches placed Tore seems that tt ai) eat ered. ‘Their greeting of the returned FORTNIGHT later Marain, we have plenty of ammunition and cue folk, who probably arenow “ay” | oo ke man at there for fuel have brought sou the helt, Are avery one of us in the Wanderer was far from cordial P ” > the place Is thick with game. a site - the head Wve ned, Lift: "Have you fire?’ 1 asked of. the eira, Also, hy the wa t Gole ale replied in her It was at this juncture that Marais Pereira and their compan~ “Witt Gear Allan, unless help comes “The first two things are possibie [hv lead of the grave wurned.. t ibalten Dena tar thay eee , re a a Ml uf God whe replied io har Tt wae ae this junceure that Maral / fons, a little band in all of 14 ust think that we shall dic, every enough, father enip will take In hla hand, he pointed to me wnore- skeli 4 mer, Mave: Deouahe you. sue rnlee, AUR . LC a) ha a Aa / about twenty men, thirty one, for God alone knows the mine me to thi have Maraix's on, {he other two men (armed tne eiNelu, nein,” they answered: “our serount, und nome (000 of my own, or ""t\'sy, "Manto he ‘has promised Dut T think he must have been keep: women and children, and erles that wo suffer and the horrible . ye nundesd db what la left of ie, in goods and oll. areca ¢ hion,’ a te mad. nM 1 replied gloomily, ing in the background on purpose to ay fifty halfbrecds and Hottentot salts of aicknens and death that ara pounds which my ‘at lant Lam quite ma fire | dead | ’ ; nk , nee ; dof a reception Peretra of i hank stands the spook produced the tinder-box which I Ma not refuse 1 for somehow his words struck a #@@ what kind r around ua, At this moment there [and lett ar. Thank ‘s ° y f which of ue d ; pee ae would meet with. aklied 70 rye shisence the son of the English earried with mo, and struck the flin hi through mn 0 ‘ ‘ after-riders, trekked from thelt ties by me a little girl who ts dying Heaven! owin DY upionenealin nt whd lived near Cradock,” ‘Ten minutes later we had a cheerful belong? T have promised, Alian, and twill “Silence, brothers,” he said, te Romes into the wilderness. | rode to of faver. the bank at Port Elizabeth. That a % goon as 1 heard the voice ft blaze, and wit of t would neem that it should be | nia T have this the way you greet my nephew the creat of a table-topped hill and “Ob, Allan, if you can help us, do {pe bank at Tonk Vilmibenl That i knew the speaker. 4n hour good soup, for tron pots were na anewered Howls, ante Fou. ke y oath to God, mpting to whe Bee returned trom tee ae i atched the long live of wagons, ono #0! Because of our atck it is impos: Yhigh would buy a great many cattie "Oh, Mynheer Marnia!” I cried, “I net wanting--only food to put urself a) faithful, ant work vouno harm, and leaving all in n you id be on d iwi away mble for Ux to get to Delugow Bay, ii : ; t not fo of them containing Marie, ¢ T think that for the reat of tha: were it not for and other things. As for the third, it am no ghost; Lam Allan himself come thei thanking God for his deltwer- whe would now and if we did we have no money to dite nis Hut you, en your part, knees tin « ds, 4) it? It ay to save you.” fay those poor creatures did little else be lying vd nder,” also that, tl ehe te ance Rerthward across tho veld a mile or juy anything there, for all that we 42, not in our hands Ws it? Tt may lo G00) we nade no answer: he seemed Dut eat, sleeping between their meats the littin heaps tha You" will not take Maria aa "Then go on your knees ang k more beneath, had with ua was lost ina wagon in may be that they are dead. | bewildered, But one of the men cried Oh! the joy Thad in feeding them, (if most the a no, Rot if You were lett ten ourself. “Henri Marais left for my father a @ flooded river, Tt was a great 8UM, only go to soe,” out eragily especially after the wagons arrived, Yer. |! would neem tomether in the veldt, You m noreamed ihe irrepressth letter that ran thus: for it included Hernan’a rich fogtune the upshot of it was that L took the How can you save us, youngster, bringing with them salt-—how th to you. Who have sav ay people Who are affianced to Ape Pay re ane 148 \ VRov. Teer and Priend Quatermain: which he brought from the Cape with money and scf foril. Hans, ay Hot. unions ire ready to be eaten? longed for that salt!—sugar and coffee way ay fd mine also othar aint (ne more,” Pet Teturn of Allen here, they H bid you farewell, for, him in gold, Nor can we move any- fentot, going with me Don’ sec, We starve, we starve!” een ow L auippose that he saw ong 0, having no oho 5 ware’ hed Fee vou ute ‘English and we where cae, for we have no cattio or (Mtl wing yw ith mn ‘T Wave wagons and food,” | an CHAPTER VI facn the Joy whieh T cout not oon vnough with & heavy heart, Then, fet nkunk behing him. Al ‘ rel t times, T honor you horses. We have sent to Deiagoa . swered., . enal, for he adde vaat ve suppo: n Ol 0 ~ , : feimy hearts Friends now. that Bay, where we hear these are to be CHAPTER \V. “Alicinachie? Henri." | exclaimed The Promise. Ko F awore on the Hong amm contract publi, Marala oetied auch of thls Portugusee fellow! Mas 4 ta pur ord had, te try to buy them on eredit; but 5 the man, with a wild laugh, “do you : ligt ever homey he surv pers, ° OC ‘4 FN ee or cnow not whe, But my cousin Hernan's. relations, of The Camp of Death. ir what your Enelish apook saya? 1 original thigy-fve vughter ma oq taring near, and repeated to them he ts your sister's aon, or because ye: Fie done gnpuct be undone ul Hho were a good Fag. the forma ofthe contract that we Want to force Marie there to marry Y What is doye cannot be undone, and whom he used to talk so much 'T was a long Jougney and be- Ile soys that he has wagons and food, souls, not reckoning natives, ne were a ng the term y want te force Marie there te, Ttiust that all will o right. If or gone away, and no o pathy daily hardship. and who had accompanied Henri ust he No loft Had, mde se ane shrugged Si remeiiine par not, Jt 12 because the good Lord wills trust us. With the neighboring Kat. 4 at sis burt into tears a Marais upon hin | sa'a ore again, i her press men ued ene OF gometh baa ia zee, 7] it otherwise.” firs, too, who have plenty of cattle, we peril, 1 xecured an outti if upon my breast, nes x on vite Herban Pereira, that their sioulders. Hut Vrouw Prinalee, yo y father y . pile : z ately at Delagoa Bay, and by dint me down, | wrenched iny- pedition thera pr 8 gould not give her to you, #) 1 LT remember, said outright that she mouth ehut' ero my father looked up and have quarrelled sinc unfortunately, 8 y ne down y Me | nega ins wusipens fallin. ate at (To Be Contin ) i: "When men suffer from their my cousin and some of the other of much questivuing and after many self free of him and ran to Maric, mained but Kine alive at tie gew can. bigs my Opbb, ? ght, the ty ued. pat ‘ ~ - nero ore